CAIRO — On May 2, 2011, the same day the Ohio River reached 61.72 feet in Cairo, the highest level on record, Tyrone Coleman was sworn in as mayor. The ceremony was a few hours before the New ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. To alleviate some of the pressure and save Cairo from being washed out, the Army ...

Even as votes are being counted from Egypt's election, the country is descending into levels of violence seen during the Arab Spring. A sit-in around government buildings in Cairo -- #OccupyCabinet -- ...

Cairo is a difficult place. The biggest Arab or African city and one of the biggest mostly Muslim metropolises, it is furiously crowded, grubby and noisy. It is venerable as the home to the sole ...

Until the January 25 uprising, Cairo was a sensory attack of overflowing sidewalks, sweet-tobacco-scented air, and Egypt’s national pastimes: hobnobbing and horn honking. During the thick of the ...

For 45 years, Maryse Helal’s family has refereed the conversations among Cairo’s cultural elite at Estoril, their windowless downtown restaurant (12 Talaat Harb St.; 20-2574-3102). Here’s who you ...

I eagerly await my TAC colleague Daniel Larison’s thoughts on the Egyptian mob’s overrunning of the Israeli embassy in Cairo this weekend. In my comboxes, some readers seem to have taken the line that ...